Ex-airman: Baby's death an accident

Ex-airman released on bond Friday; mother says she's 'disgusted'

9:25 PM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Justin K. Corbett

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A former Dover airman charged with beating a colleague's toddler to death claims the child was walking down steps with his son when "he heard a sound that sounded like books that had fallen to the floor" and rushed to the bottom of the stairs to find the boy "in distress," his defense argued in court papers.

Justin K. Corbett, then a staff sergeant at Dover Air Force Base, faces murder by abuse charges in the November 2012 death of 21-month-old Evan J. Dudley while his mother was deployed in Qatar. The boy was in a brain-dead state at Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children for four days. His mother ...